{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = TsumaguroHP.jpg | image_caption = ''Pempheris japonica'' | image2 = Pempheris vanicolensis Karpathos.JPG | image2_caption = ''Pempheris rhomboidea'' | taxon = Pempheris | authority = G. Cuvier, 1829<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=1141|title=''Pempheris''|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref> | type_species = ''Pempheris touea'' | type_species_authority = G. Cuvier, 1829<ref name = CofF/> | synonyms = ''Catalufa'' <small>Snyder, 1911</small><br /> ''Liopempheris'' <small>Ogilby, 1913</small><br /> ''Priacanthopsis'' <small>Fowler, 1906</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = Coffs>{{Cof family|family=Pempheridae|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref> }} thumb|''Pempheris vanicolensis'' (front)

'''''Pempheris''''' is a genus of sweepers native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Pempheris| month = June| year = 2017}}</ref>

==Species== There are currently more than 70 recognized species in this genus: * ''Pempheris adspersa'' <small>Griffin, 1927</small> (New Zealand bigeye) * ''Pempheris adusta'' <small>Bleeker, 1877</small> (Dusky sweeper) * ''Pempheris affinis'' <small>McCulloch, 1911</small> (Black-tipped sweeper) * ''Pempheris analis'' <small>Waite, 1910</small> (Bronze sweeper) * ''Pempheris andilana'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015>{{cite journal |author1=Randall, J.E. |author2=Victor, B.C. | year = 2015 | title = Descriptions of thirty-four new species of the fish genus ''Pempheris'' (Perciformes: Pempheridae), with a key to the species of the western Indian Ocean | journal = Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation | volume = 18 | pages = 1–77 | url = http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf18.pdf }}</ref> * ''Pempheris argyrea'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris bexillon'' <small>Mooi & J. E. Randall, 2014</small><ref name=Mooi2014>Mooi, R.D. & Randall, J.E. (2014): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03780p398.pdf ''Pempheris bexillon'', a new species of sweeper (Teleostei: Pempheridae) from the Western Indian Ocean.] ''Zootaxa, 3780 (2): 388–398.''</ref> * ''Pempheris bineeshi'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris bruggemanni'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris compressa'' <small>(J. White, 1790)</small> (Small-scale sweeper, small-scale bullseye) * ''Pempheris connelli'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris convexa'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014</small><ref name=Randall2014a>Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2014): Four new fishes of the genus ''Pempheris'' (Perciformes: Pempheridae) from the western Indian Ocean. ''Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 12: 61-83.''</ref> * ''Pempheris cuprea'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014</small><ref name=Randall2014a/> * ''Pempheris darvelli'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014</small><ref name=Randall2014a/> * ''Pempheris eatoni'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014</small><ref name=Randall2014a/> * ''Pempheris ellipse'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris familia'' <small>Koeda & Motomura, 2017</small> * ''Pempheris flavicycla'' <small>J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013</small><ref name=Randall2013>Randall, J.E., Bogorodsky, S.V., Alpermann, T.J., Satapoomin, U., Mooi, R.D. & Mal, A.O. (2013): [http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf9a.pdf ''Pempheris flavicycla'', a new pempherid fish from the Indian Ocean, previously identified as ''P. vanicolensis'' Cuvier.] ''Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 9: 1-23.''</ref> ** ''P. f. flavicycla'' <small>J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013</small> (Yellow-eye sweeper)<ref name=Randall2013/> ** ''P. f. marisrubri'' <small>J. E. Randall, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2013</small><ref name=Randall2013/> * ''Pempheris gasparinii'' <small>H. T. Pinheiro, Bernardi & L. A. Rocha, 2016</small> (Trindade sweeper)<ref name=Pinheiro2016>Pinheiro, H.T., Bernardi, G. & Rocha, L.A. (2016): ''Pempheris gasparinii'', a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae). ''ZooKeys, 561: 105-115.''</ref> * ''Pempheris hadra'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris heemstraorum'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris hollemani'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris ibo'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris japonica'' <small>Döderlein (de), 1883</small> * ''Pempheris klunzingeri'' <small>McCulloch, 1911</small> (Klunzinger's sweeper) * ''Pempheris kruppi'' <small>J. E. Randall, Victor & Aideed, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris kuriamuria'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris leiolepis'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris malabarica'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1831</small><ref name=Randall2014b/> * ''Pempheris mangula'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1829</small> (Black-edged sweeper) * ''Pempheris megalops'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris micromma'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris molucca'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1829</small> * ''Pempheris multiradiata'' <small>Klunzinger, 1879</small> (Common sweeper) * ''Pempheris muscat'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris nesogallica'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1831</small><ref name=Victor2014>Randall, J.E., Victor, B.C., Alpermann, T.J., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O., Satapoomin, U. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus ''Pempheris''. ''Zootaxa, 3887 (3): 377–392.''</ref> * ''Pempheris nyctereutes'' <small>D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902</small> * ''Pempheris orbis'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris ornata'' <small>Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996</small> (Orange-lined sweeper) * ''Pempheris otaitensis'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1831</small> * ''Pempheris oualensis'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1831</small> (Silver sweeper) * ''Pempheris pathirana'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris peza'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris poeyi'' <small>T. H. Bean, 1885</small> (Curved sweeper) * ''Pempheris rapa'' <small>Mooi, 1998</small> * ''Pempheris rhomboidea'' <small>Kossman & Räuber, 1877</small> (Dusky sweeper)<ref name=Victor2014/> * ''Pempheris rochai'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris rubricauda'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris russellii'' <small>F. Day, 1888</small><ref name=Victor2014/> * ''Pempheris sarayu'' <small>J. E. Randall & Bineesh, 2014</small><ref name=Randall2014b>Randall, J.E. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): [http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf10c.pdf Review of the fishes of the genus ''Pempheris'' (Perciformes: Pempheridae) of India, with description of a new species and a neotype for ''P. mangula'' Cuvier.] ''Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 10: 20-40.''</ref> * ''Pempheris schomburgkii'' <small>J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848</small> (Glassy sweeper) * ''Pempheris schreineri'' <small>A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915</small> * ''Pempheris schwenkii'' <small>Bleeker, 1855</small> (Black-stripe sweeper) * ''Pempheris sergey'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris shimoni'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris shirleen'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris smithorum'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris tau'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris ternay'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/>(seychelles sweeper) * ''Pempheris tilman'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris tiran'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris tominagai'' <small>Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2014</small><ref name=Koeda2014>Koeda, K., Yoshino, T., Imai, H. & Tachihara, K. (2014): A review of the genus ''Pempheris'' (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. ''Zootaxa, 3793 (3): 301–330.''</ref> * ''Pempheris trinco'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris ufuagari'' <small>Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2013</small> (Crown sweeper) * ''Pempheris vanicolensis'' <small>G. Cuvier, 1831</small> (Vanikoro sweeper) * ''Pempheris viridis'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris wilsoni'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris xanthomma'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/> * ''Pempheris xanthoptera'' <small>Tominaga, 1963</small> * ''Pempheris ypsilychnus'' <small>Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996</small> (Ypsilon sweeper) * ''Pempheris zajonzi'' <small>J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015</small><ref name=Randall2015/>

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